Development and
Cooperation

Digital monthly 10/2022

Pandemic impacts

Governance

Debt situation is escalating in many developing countries

Multilateral action is needed to get a grip on debt problems in low-income countries

Our view

Pandemic lessons

Climate mitigation has positive health impacts internationally

Green transformation

Crisis as an opportunity

Crises like the Covid-19 pandemic offer opportunities for eco-friendly stimulus programmes

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Personal experiences

Covid-19 impacts worldwide

D+C/E+Z contributors from very different countries share their personal experiences on the Corona pandemic

Togo

Solidarity helps to escape pandemic

How the Covid-19 pandemic contributed to more social protection in Togo

IT industry

Fighting Coronavirus with a computer game

Ghanaian computer game developer Eyram Tawia on Covid-19 impacts on his business

Sustainable development

Bengali doctor says pandemic proved validity of SDG agenda

Covid-19 caused hardship in Bangladesh, but proved less devastating than initially feared

Poverty

School closures in pandemic showed multidimensional poverty

UNICEF reckons that one third of the world’s schoolchildren did not get formal lessons because of Covid-19

Rule of law

Covid-19 and human rights

Covid-19 measures endanger the human rights of prisoners, says a report from the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)

Women’s rights

Partnering with women’s groups can curb gender violence

Local women’s rights groups are often overlooked when global aid organisations plan responses to humanitarian crises. This should change